Image of An offering before Captain Cook in the Sandwich Islands. Drawn

An offering before Captain Cook in the Sandwich Islands. Drawn by John Webber; the landscape...

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Image title: An offering before Captain Cook in the Sandwich Islands. Drawn by John Webber; the landscape engraving by Samuel Middiman; the figures by John Hall. A scene in Hawaii in 1778. Hawaiian men are seated on the ground around four European men, and are offering suckling pigs. Behind the Europeans stands a figure in a tall mask, and in the background is a fenced enclosure containing a steep-roofed thatched building. There are palms and other native vegetation at left and right.
Location: British Library, London, UK

Image description: A collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson, and J. F. Miller, made in the Countries visited by Captain James Cook in his First Voyage [1768-1771], also of prints published in John Hawksworth's Voyages of Biron [Byron], Wallis, and Cook [1773], as well as in Cook's second and third Voyages [1772-1775, 1776-1780]. Illustrator: Webber, John 1768-1780 Source/Shelfmark: Add.23921 f.75
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
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